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Exhibitors
Ron Buchanan is self-taught and has been
selling his unashamedly realist pictures for more than 40 years. Originally
painting was a weekend hobby activity although he has been drawing all his
life and cannot remember a time when he did not have a pencil in his hand.
Having retired as a GP in Woking four years ago Ron has been painting more
and more seriously. He has been a member of Woking Society of Arts for more
than 30 years and joined Guildford Art Society and the Surrey Artists’ Group
four years ago. He says that he is hoping to build a second career in
retirement and is being successful having won the Chairman’s Award at the
Guildford Art Society’s 2009 exhibition.
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Melanie Cambridge’s work is based on
light and colour. She aims to capture the essence of a location rather than
every last detail and often works initially outdoors enabling her to produce
wonderfully atmospheric paintings.
In order to remain fresh as an art tutor, Melanie feels it is important to
retain her main role as a landscape painter developing her own work and ideas
and aims to take part in several exhibitions each year in order to progress her
own work. Also an established author, she is currently writing her fourth art
instruction book for Collins. As a tutor, Melanie runs workshops and painting
holidays in the UK and abroad, teaching mainly in oils and acrylics.
Melanie is a founder member and current chairman of the Maritime Art Group, a
professional associate of the Society for All Artists and an exhibiting member
of Guildford Art Society.
Full details of her artistic activities can be found at
www.melaniecambridge.com
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Sheila Edwards was born in Wales and studied
Pharmacy at university before marrying and bringing up a family. She then had
time to enjoy her first love – painting – and had tuition from John Blockley,
Moira Huntley and Mike Bernard. Her subjects are mainly landscapes, both
representational and semi-abstract in watercolour, pastel and mixed media.
Sheila’s work has been shown at exhibitions of The Pastel Society, The Royal
Institute of Painters in Watercolour and The Royal Society of Marine Artists at
The Mall Galleries in London. She has also exhibited with The Society of Women
Artists in Westminster and The Rowley Gallery of Contemporary Arts in
Kensington. She is an exhibiting member of both Farnham and Alton Art Societies
and has exhibited at The Maltings, Farnham, Chichester Open Exhibitions, Handel
House, Devizes and The Long Curve in Chipping Campden. Sheila won the James
Hockey Award for Painting given by the Farnham Art Society in 1998, 1999 and in
2001.
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Tom Hart studied at Kingston School of Art
followed by a career in architecture during which he received several awards in
the RIBA/DOE Biennial Housing Design awards.
Prior to retirement he began sculpting in clay in classes tutored by Sheila
Mitchell. Ten years ago he was introduced to stone carving and his work has been
shown in a number of galleries and regularly in the exhibitions of the several
Art Societies of which he is a member. Tom carves mainly in Portland stone the
hardness of which enables sharp edges and a surface suited to the polished
finish he prefers for the purpose of internal display.
Recently he has tried his hand at woodcarving, a material with the benefit of
being less heavy to handle although with a grain not found in stone. Most of his
pieces, whether in wood or stone, have a geometric form containing free- flowing
curves sometimes contrasting with sharp rectangular elements. The female form
occurs frequently, providing an opportunity to express the curving harmonious
beauty possessed by that sex.
Visual enjoyment and pleasure by the viewer is his primary intention and Tom
expects his work to be caressed.
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Caroline Jackman says: “I have developed a
unique style of paintings that deals with the playful fun of exploring colour
and texture, how it can affect the character and position of the figurative
study. Inspired by everyday occurrences, movement in animals, nativity, the
subtleness of life surrounding us and how each of these characters make their
way through life. I have developed an approach which employs fields of gloss
paint to hold the intriguing images. The use of gloss provides a non-penetrable
force holding the mass of contrasting oil paint, which moulds the image. I am
currently developing my work through a series of courses held at Ochre Print
Studio in Guildford to establish further development to my working practice.”
Caroline has also developed a career working to commission as a portrait artist,
with a particular specialty is in horses and dogs, ensuring a representation of
character. She works in oils or watercolour, offering a traditional approach to
her work. Her painting style is unique, especially in her approach to
watercolours which she builds layer upon layer to achieve a three-dimensional
feel to the texture of the animals’ features.
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Sue Jelley studied initially at The Bristol
College of Commerce and then Fine Art at The West Surrey College of Art and
Design with James Hockey. For many years she worked in a private studio in
Surrey but also spent time working with the French Pastel Society in Paris which
she has recently been invited to join. This experience, together with her
frequent travels to the US, Europe and South Africa, has provided Sue with
inspiration for her work which has been exhibited internationally in Paris and
Tucson and in this country with The Pastel Society, The Society of Women
Artists, The Menier Gallery, VivArtis, The Llewellyn Alexander Gallery and The
Affordable Art Fair in Battersea.
Sue’s interest in human interaction is shown by her café and dance scenes and
her portraits with which she has worked with Ken Paine, the portrait painter, at
Hampton Court. The body language of her models plays an
important part in her work and she is currently involved in a series of studies
including jazz. The BBC commissioned work for the BBC Radios
2 & 3 2006 and 2007 Jazz Awards, featuring Quincy Jones and Dave Brubeck. She
painted a portrait of Quincy Jones which he bought and now hangs in his Los
Angeles home.
Sue has recently been elected Vice-president of the Society of Women Artists.
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Enid Millward studied at Putney School of Art at
the same time as working as a professional photographer at the Science Museum in
London. Having moved to Farnham she continued to study painting with a number of
painters and teachers including Mike Bernard. She has exhibited at The Mall
Galleries in London and at a number of local art societies and galleries
including an exhibition with a painting colleague at the Guildhall Gallery,
Winchester.
Returning to painting after a break Enid has concentrated mainly on oils but she
also works in collage and mixed media. Her subjects include water subjects, land
and seascapes and she is particularly interested in capturing the movement of
water in paint and the distortion of objects reflected in it. Enid says “Oil
painting gives me the freedom to explore this interest because it allows me to
follow the direction and movement of water accurately.”
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Linnea Taylor was brought up on Vancouver Island
with sea and rocks in front and the great rain forests behind, so this landscape
is part of the world she paints. Her ten years in Africa and the Middle East
showed her another inspiring landscape. She says “I often saw the skeleton of
the earth under the surface and dried twisted sticks or leaves would send me off
to find a pencil.”
Linnea has painted all her life and is self-taught. Having worked with children
and adults in Africa she came to understand the need for self-expression and
trained as an Art Therapist when she returned to England. This training changed
her way of painting and she says that she lost the fear of putting herself and
her feelings into the work and she began to just let things happen, as children
do.
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John Walker initially studied Stained Glass at
Richmond College and with Goddard and Gibbs Ltd in London. Having learned
painting techniques with Joan Workman, the wife of United Artists’ president
Harold Workman, and after a year in France he began to sell his paintings and
won several commissions. In 1997 John’s work was shortlisted for The RA Summer
Exhibition and three years later he was voted one of the winners in the Sunday
Times/ Jessops Photography Competition which was exhibited at the National
Museum of Television and Photography in Bradford.
John’s watercolours, oils and limited edition prints can be found in galleries
from Glasgow to Cardiff and his work is in private and corporate collections in
the UK, Canada, USA and France.
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